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Legacy Home Loans – Black – Owned Mortgage Banking Firm

Legacy Home Loans –  Black-owned mortgage banking firm headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, have opened three new branch offices in Black and minority communities as they continue to make good on their commitment to empowering African American communities throughout the United States. “We have a focus on building sustainable wealth through homeownership and leaving family Read More…

New Books Uncategorized Youth In Action

ShaQuanda Cotton – Memoir of a “Teacher Slapping”

ShaQuanda Cotton, who in 2006 was sentenced to up to 7 years confinement at a Texas juvenile detention facility as a black teen following accusations that she pushed a white teacher’s aide, announces the release of her new book, ‘Memoir of a “Teacher Slapping”  On September 30, 2005, 14-year-old ShaQuanda Cotton attempted to enter a Read More…

Covid-19 History Perspective Uncategorized

How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020/21

How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020 and 2021 – Racial Violence and A Pandemic: Racial strife flaring across the United States. Black Americans standing up to societal structures in unpredictable ways. And people enduring months of a deadly pandemic infecting millions worldwide, shuttering businesses and heightening fears of a lengthy economic downturn. Read More…

crime History Uncategorized

University of Pennsylvania – Guilty!

The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and Princeton University have, for decades, manhandled the remains of 12-year-old Tree and 14-year-old Delisha Africa in the name of “anthropology,” i.e. colonial scientific study. Physical anthropologist Dr. Alan Mann, a former UPenn professor now at Princeton, stole these children’s remains, traveled with them across state lines and used them Read More…